A video on YouTube shows a rough scene in Mönchengladbach, Germany. A large group of peaceful people are praying in the tradition of Islam and a lot of other people surround them and make very loud attempts to disturb the prayer.

The initial thought is to denounce the disturbers and help those peaceful men (as far as I could see, exclusively men), because after all – they are only praying. Give it another couple of seconds and another thought might cross your mind – why do they need to perform this religious act on the street, why not in a proper place of worship – we do know that there are thousands of Mosques in Germany.

This is not the first time, nor the first place, that Islamists try this subtle tactic. Sometimes under the delicate threat of public disturbance in order to get yet another Mosque building permit and sometimes just as a public show of strength the street prayer has been used all over Europe to show the locals who is running things. Run a quick search in YouTube and you will discover many videos of dazzled Parisians trying to figure out how to get from one part of the city to another and Londoners unable to cross the street – let alone drive through a public road. Videos from Moscow show a huge crowd taking over large part of a neighborhood – to the dismay of passers by.

So, with the risk of quickly being labeled “Islamophobe” we really need to conclude that anyone who ignores any idea of the public space and goes to pray at the expanse of others even thought there are plenty of indoors places of worship around is simply a thug who is pursuing a goal that is far beyond his own little piece of salvation. In simple words this is a violent and aggressive way to force a religious system upon a society that generally has no wish to even consider that religion.

Unfortunately it is clear that many of those anti street prayer demonstrators are not champions of liberalism and peace, and it seems evident that some are plain racist and fascist, it is important to resist this act and make sure that these people realize the fine lines that they should respect in Western societies.

In peaceful city of Bonn, Germany, they were not expecting this kind of violence and riots over a small group of right wing demonstrators protesting free speech. However the far right movement (Pro NRW), did not show up on the scene in order to confront anyone but rather to protest free speech, and they did so with cartoons of the prophet Mohammad, who by now are notorious for sparking uncalled for violence in many parts of Europe where Muslims feel that they are feel to react with fantastic violence whenever their feelings are hurt in any way over a religious issue.

It would be complete hypocritical to say that the far right demonstrators did not know what they were getting themselves into, however one has to wonder how could it be that a few years after the initial world wide riots over publication of cartoons in small local European newspaper there has been no progress in the understanding of Muslim minority groups of the basic freedom for one to express his or her mind in any way, cartoons included. It only leads to one conclusion that there is a very large community in the Muslim minority across Europe that aspires to force the locals to adhere by their rules and to play nice to any Muslim sensitivity – or else.

Once again we are forced into a discussion over the who is the guilty party, the one waving a cartoon or the other passionately trying to inflict physical damage on those who do it, we find that there is no doubt that the total and complete fault here lies with the aggressors and not with anyone holding a piece of paper with a cartoon. There is no way to accept a limitation of free speech, this is one thing that the Western civilization had learned over hundreds of years of pain and anguish, and no one will take it away, not for personal sensitivities or anything different.

The good people of Bonn and Germany should realize how dangerous their streets have become, and that it is time to act and make a stand on the issue of free speech and individual rights, immigrants as well as natives should respect those issues without any need to show consideration for their feelings or sentiments.